On 08/02/2021 21:57, Lou Poppler wrote:
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 20:47 +0000, Bernard McNeill wrote:
On 08/02/2021 20:33, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Bernard McNeill <[email protected]> (2021-02-08):
It says to 'Change the SATA from RAID On to AHCI, without this change Linux
will not find SSD'.
Questions: 1. To me, SATA is a reference to HDD, no internal HDD on my
copy of this model - so not relevant ?
Used for almost anything really, HDD, SSD, USB sticks, etc.
In passing, I note the same link shows a need to disable Secure Boot -
is this now obsolete?
Likely. We've started supporting SB with Debian 10 (buster).
Cheers,
If I change the SATA from RAID On to AHCI, do I mess up whatever is
currently on the SSD?
Best regards
See
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Pros-Cons-AHCI-vs-Raid-On-XPS13-9300-NVMe/td-p/7636984
You have Windows on a regular, spinning hard disk in the machine, and you also
have an
unused SSD -- is this correct? Or maybe they are already RAIDed together by
the factory?
I thing especially if you are now introducing a third external disk to the mix,
you probably
do not want this factory RAID thing, but I don't know how safe it is to turn it
off if you
already have two mass-storage devices controlled by the thing.
+ You have Windows on a regular, spinning hard disk in the machine, and
+ you also have an
+ unused SSD -- is this correct? Or maybe they are already RAIDed
+ together by the factory?
I have one SSD (which has Win-10 on it), there is no other disk
(spinning or otherwise) on the machine.
The BIOS System Information says 'M.2. SATA =(none)'
and 'M.2. PCIe SSD-0=87NB51ASK5HS'.
However: Under BIOS System Configuration, 'SATA Operation' is set to
'RAID On', [other options are 'Disabled' and 'AHCI' ].
Best regards
